Georgia Barnes:
City of Birth: Southampton
Category: -49 kgs
Competition Day: December 13.
The youngest member of the British team hopes to close a good year. Only 17 years old, she is the first British athlete to win the European Junior Championship held in Portugal earlier this year. She got a bronze medal at the European Under-21 Championship, too.
DOB: 29/09/1991
City of Birth: Liverpool
Category: +67 kg.
Competition Day: December 13.
Called “Queen B” has had a various medals in the Class-A European events and this year was no exception in Sweden and Spain.
Stephanie Allen
City of Birth: Battersea, London
Category: +67 kg.
Competition Day: December 13
Recently, she became national champion and bronze medalist the Serbia Open in 2011. She is destined for a career in Taekwondo and his dad was 10 times national champion and UK representative at the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000.
DOB: 16/08/1989
City of Birth: Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Category: +80 kgs.
Competition Day: December 13
He made his return to the UK after living and training in France. He returns motivated to show his skills at this year’s Grand Prix.
Maria Reynolds:
City of Birth: Liverpool
Category: -67 kgs
Competition Day: December 14
After winning the national championship this year Mary Reynolds comes to open space in the big leagues of Taekwondo.
DOB: 09/04/1989
City of Birth: Manchester
Category: -58 kg
Competition Day: December 14
He won silver medal at the Serbia Open held this year; the native from Manchester hopes this will help him to have a great performance in this Grand Prix.
Andrew Deer:
City of Birth: Tamworth
Category: -80 kg
Competition Day: December 14
Double national champion won the Wild Card for this event by his silver medal in the Serbia Open this year. He is motivated and will do his best to show his skills thanking the opportunity to be at the Grand Prix.
DOB: 30/06/1991
City of Birth: Walthamstow, London
Category: -80 kg
Competition Day: December 14
He is the first British athlete to get a Bronze Olympic Medal in London last year. Winner of a Gold Medal in the Serbia Open this year, he hopes to have a good day of competition for this year’s Grand Prix.
Caroline Fisher:
City of Birth: Barnsley
Category: -57 kgs
Competition Day: December 15
Perhaps the most veteran of the team, but the most indispensable. She won a bronze medal at the 2012 European Championships and the German Open this year; she hopes her experience helps her to make an excellent performance in the Grand Prix.
DOB: 21/03/1993
City of Birth: Bodelwyddan, Flint
Category: -57 kgs
Competition Day: December 15
Champion of the Olympic Games last year, Champion of the Youth Olympics in Singapore three years ago, bronze in the European Championships last year and champion in the German Open this year. She is the favorite in her category to become champion.
Michael Harvey:
City of Birth: Manchester
Category: -68 kgs
Competition Day: December 15
Only 24-years old he is World Silver Medalist in 2011; one of the most experienced of the British team, representative of the UK in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He hopes to highlight at this year’s Grand Prix.
DOB: 24/07/1991
City of Birth: Manchester
Category: -68 kgs
Competition Day: December 15
Out of the competitions this year due to a knee injury, he has not been able to show his talent. However, winning the Serbia Open this year allowed him to get the Wild Card which gave him the opportunity to be at the Grand Prix, where he undoubtedly will shop his skills.
Martin Stamper:
City of Birth: Liverpool
Category: -68 kgs
Competition Day: December 15
Named Athlete of the Year by the British Taekwondo Association in 2011, having won 27 of 29 combats. He also won a bronze medal at the World Championships that year. Champion of the Spain Open and representative of the British team at the World Championship this year.
Alex Korram, Exclusive masTaekwondo.com